IT is hard to get through to some people. Far too often, the authorities expend a lot energy trying to convert those who wilfully refuse to live by the rules.

Step forward the ‘too cool for seatbelts’ and the proposal that kids be banned from school buses if they don’t belt up on-board.

Irrespective of how harmful or dangerous their behaviour is, the authorities love to assume responsibility for keeping people safe from their own decisions.

There’s absolutely no need to interfere here.

If kids don’t want to wear a seatbelt on a school bus, there’s very little any one can do to police it.

The council would be far better campaigning for a change in the law against the compensation culture.

This has flourished under the exploitative personal injury sector which looks for loopholes like this to screw money out of cash-strapped public authorities.

The rules should be changed so that councils cannot be sued if a silly passenger ends up breaking a nose when the Number 10 brakes suddenly because they hadn’t buckled-up.

The best bit about being young is a feeling of invincibility and not fearing the consequences.

Picking your two front teeth off the floor of a bus could just be a life lesson learned.